INQUIRY ABOUT THE PROGRESS OF THE SOWING CAMPAIGN

Written:Written on October 4, 1921Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIII.

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TelegramSimbirsk, Astrakhan, Tsaritsyn, Saratov,Samara, Ufa, Uralsk, Vyatka

GuberniaSowing Committees: Marxstadt, Cheboksary,Krasnokokshaisk, Astrakhan, Izhevsk

RegionalSowing Committees: Kazan, Orenburg, Sterlitamak

People’sCommissariat for Agriculture

Overthe last month, you have stopped sending in any
information on the progress of the sowing campaign and
the combating of famine. The People’s Commissariat for
Agriculture, at present engaged mainly in the work of
overcoming the aftereffects of the crop failure, is more
than in the past few months in need of regular and the
fullest possible information about your activity and the
actual state of agriculture in the gubernia. Accordingly,
I categorically reaffirm earlier instructions on dates of
information reports, and propose that you should raise the
information apparatus up to the mark and, by way of
urgent order, within 48 hours from the receipt of this
telegram, telegraph the following information:
1) the approved
area under winter crops;
2) the area under winter crops
sown;
3) the number of dessiatines left for winter fallowing;
4) the quantity of seeds received under warrants from the
centre and through commodity exchange;
5) the quantity of
seeds actually distributed;
6) the distribution procedures;
7) measures taken to save livestock, results achieved;
8)
measures taken to save dead stock, results achieved;
9) planned
social activity, its implementation;
10) state of
resettlement;
11) state of village committees, their participation
in overall work. After telegram send special messenger
with full report. The responsible leaders of gubernias
failing to reply within the specified period will be subjected
to disciplinary punishment.

Onpoints 6 to 11 cable the shortest possible reply or the
exact date of dispatch of a written
reply.[2]

LeninChairman, Council of Labour and
Defence[1]

[1]Thetelegram is also signed by N. Osinsky, Deputy People’s
Commissar for Agriculture.—Ed.

[2]Thelast sentence of the text was written by Lenin.